SL Video: A Year in Raglan Shire 2012

Raglan Shire, Second Life's most noted community of Tinies, made this video of various events over the past year. Happy New Year Raglan.

Hat tip: Daniel Voyager.

SL Video: M. Poster Linden's Christmas 2012 Video

From Crap Mariner, "M. Poster" is a parody of "M Linden," the second CEO of Linden Lab whom got the blame for the Grid starting to go downhill.

SL Video: "Traveling"

A machinima made by a "Pep Lemmon" in 2011, showing a number of locations. Note AM Radio's classic locations early in the video.

"Music and video by Pep Lemmon. This machinima was filmed in several well known locations in the virtual world of Second Life.

"In the second half of the video I played a little bit with some tweaks that you can find in the advanced menu in Phoenix viewer. Thanks to all the amazing builders and sim creators who make possible filming in such wondeful locations."

SL Video: "I Wanna Go Fast"

Made for The University of Western Australia's "MachinimUWA III" machinima contest in 2011, by "MoscowIsland."

The University of Western Australia- MachinimUWA III - "I Wanna Go Fast"
Machinima, Idea & Scenario - Andy Graycloud
Building and Terraforming - Sezja Melodie
Post Production - Andy Graycloud.

"I Wanna Go Fast"
Performed by
Johny Black Gang

"Shining Moment"
Performed by
The Flavor

"Make Them Say Ooh!"
Performed by
Dot Dot Dot

"Thanks to everyone who has watched my machinima and those who will watch as time passes. To those who leave and have left many kind comments, it is greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all my friends and to Sezja, who made this possible!"

SL Machinima: "Time Travelers Ep 5 - Quantum Entangled "

The latest "Time Travellers" episode by Pookymedia is up, "We are all of us connected, none more so than the Teen Time Travelers who must fight to escape the danger of the approaching Meks. As they jump through time and again meet their future selves, the stakes escalate around the future as they must follow their present destiny. Game on!

"The award winning series, Time Travelers, is an animated adventure series about the future. The series showcases future careers in science such as geoengineering for alternative energy, nanobiolology and neuroscience for learning and health care.

"Time Travelers was sponsored by the leader in education financing SLFC, www.slfc.com , and iHelp, www.ihelploan.com , committed to helping students achieve their educational and career goals. For over 30 years SLFC has been a pioneer in enabling students to realize their dreams for the future through education. SLFC's support made Time Travelers a reality.

"Time Travelers will be seen online, at International Film Festivals and throughout the nation at FutureLab: The Innovation Expo www.FutureLabExpo.com ."

Written by James Canton and Pooky Amsterdam. Pooky, whom is known for hosting the game show, "the 1st Question," takes on a role in this episode.

See Episode 4 Here, and Episodes 1-3 combined Here.

SL Youtube: "Vic and the Pink Dalek"

And now for some Relay for Life fun involving Vic Mornington (Victor1st Mornington) of the Relay for Life "Team Dr. Who Fans in SL" and a pink-plated Dalek.

"Victor1st Mornington and a pink Dalek enjoying a lovely date together.

"We won time with Victor1st following a Relay For Life Auction. So what better than him being reunited with the pink Dalek once again!

"Please support Relay for Life, together we can help find a cure. Please goto -
http://www.cancer.org/Involved/Participate/RelayForLife/second-life

"With Thanks to Michelle Leckrone for filming & Editing this.

"The name Dalek and Doctor Who are solely owned by the BBC, I own nothing!"

For those not familiar with "Dr Who," the Daleks are killer robots normally hostile to everything other than themselves. The classic ones are stainless steel, but more recent seasons of the show have these newer models that have inspired a few "Power Ranger" jokes from some Whovians.

SL Youtube: SL Newser Office "Meeting" at the SL9B

Filmed by Qwark Allen Sunday June 24 sometime in the afternoon. Qwark, his partner Gemma Cleanslate, and I have an office get-together with a few friends of ours. Most of us loved it, but Gemma had mixed feelings, "Hey! My mouth's open! I look like I'm yelling at the boss!"

No she wasn't, and I was there as her witness. But it's still a great souvenir for us from the SL9B

SL Youtube: "Celebrate" SL9B Party

A video of a party at SL9B, by "Chaîne de Sliennedunord"

SL9B Birthday Hunt Trailer

"In addition to all the fabulous installations at the community birthday celebration, there will be a birthday treasure hunt as well! Watch and learn how to find your free prizes!"

Read more in the article here: http://sl9b.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/the-egyptian-hunt-clue-one/

SL Youtube: "美香の箱 [Mika's Box] ," "Flufee on a Meshion - Episode 13"

Another "Flufee" machinima from Pooky Amsterdam and Draxtor Despres, "Kaito helps Mika recover a mysterious box....what does this have to with Flufee? Watch, find out & enjoy pondering life's persistent questions...."

SL Youtube: "The Italian Job ," "Flufee on a Meshion - Episode 12":

The latest in Draxtor Despres & Pooky Amsterdam's "Fluffe on a Meshion" series, "Jeff Smith's 'Bone' series plays a big part as Flufee travels to the old country to find out what happened to an abducted fellow spy. Did GS [the gecko syndicate] have anything to do with it? We might find out albeit the story picks up somewhere in the middle. Epilog and conclusion to follow in season two a little birdie tells me....

"The 'physical' world portion was shot at Current Comics in Salinas, California [ http://www.facebook.com/CurrentComics ] . What a blast to be on set with the Fluffmeister."

SL Youtube: Dublin in Second Life

A Youtube from 2008, it shows party scenes from the Dublin sim as part of a campaign for St. Patrick's Day that year. It was hoped that this virtual tourism would lead to the real thing, with a website set up for the sim: http://www.dublinsl.com . Within the past year, the website's gone inactive, but the sim remains and is a bit hit this time every year.

SL Youtube: Drone War

An interesting youtube of a sci-fi shooter game in Second Life. The objective, shoot down the robots, and get to a nuclear bomb in time. More info here.

"Drone War is an innovative first-person shooter game in Second Life. Your mission is to deactivate a nuclear bomb in a hidden laboratory while being pursued by several drones and enemies. Can you complete the challenge before time runs out?"

Einstein's Avatar, and "The Virtual Marathon for Medical Research" Machinima

Made by BobE Schism and Susan Writer, this machinima is about a fundraiser for the IMRIC (Institute for Medical Research for Israel and Canada). With a marathon theme, "each avatar runner represents a condition or disease that is the subject of IMRIC research and funding in partnership with Canadian laboratories and universities."

The machinima itself was started during the fundraiser, but not finished until the results were known, BobE shooting multiple endings ahead of time and selecting one only after the winner was officially announced.

Hamlet Au talked to BobE, whom told him his objective was to dramatize the outcome of the fundraiser, "The avatars represent real-life people who were raising money for medical research in real life." He did his best to make the avatars at least somewhat similar to the donors, which often had them looking a bit weathered instead of fresh young athletes, "Originally I was just meant to make ten 'representations' of the real-life people, but on review of the test shots, I was asked to make them as close as possible to the real thing, which ultimately made them much more endearing and believable than the ten young superfit aves I had originally created."

To add to the challenge, not everyone showed up at the same time, "At most there were four of us logged in, controlling ten to eleven avies, sometimes scripted, sometimes manually." He credited Elizabeth Calderwood and Katje Jewel for helping him out. Despite the help, much time was lost due to various SL bugs from avatars going off-sim, lag, and the runners sinking into the ground.

"No avatars were harmed in the making of this film, though some might have shed a few pounds."



Also in the video was an Albert Einstein avatar, also designed by BobE Schism. Approved by those in charge of the great physicist's estate, it is the official Albert Einstein Avatar in Second Life, created for the purpose of helping out with the Marathon. The voice of the avatar was the only German speaker BobE knew, who used special effects to lower his voice, "now every time I speak to him on the phone, it sounds like I'm speaking to Albert Einstein on helium."

Sources: New World Notes, IMRIC

Bixyl Shuftan

SL Machinima: Podex Bank Robbery

Jacek Shuftan of Podex pointed out another attempt at a bank robbery at Podex. They got farther than "Clumsy Cooper" ever did. But unlike the masked man, these bandit's won't be coming back to the Grid.

The "SL Goonies Visit Burn 2"

Gemma found out about this Youtube done by Loki Eliot,"The SL Goonies once again set out to explore the annual Virtual World version of Burning life 'Burn2' . We explore some of the many builds before finishing at the Kids Camp where we watch the Mini Man burn."

SL Youtube: "Flufee on the Couch" - "Flufee on a Meshion - Episode2":

"Fluffee," the noted mesh stuffed toy avatar and character in Pooky Amsterdam & Draxtor Despres' "Flufee on a Meshion" machinima, is back in a sequel. Here, Flufee shares a few issues with Pooky's psychiatrist.

SL Youtube: "Give Love Away"

Sent to SL Newser by Flimsy Freenote, "Filmed in SecondLife at the Stairclimb Tribute for Fallen Firefighters: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Equus/101/211/23 "Give Love Away" by Canadian singer/songwriter Nance Brody, copyright 2011, nancebrody@gmail.com"

SL Youtube: Horror Night 2011 - Negai -

Featured machinima on the Second Life website, the Japanese horror-themed Mindscape sim.

"Can you solve the mysteries in Horror Night, a limited-time puzzle game that will immerse you in spooky surroundings and unexpected twists? Danger lurks around every corner as you collect the items needed to complete the game. Grab a free HUD from the shrine to begin... and good luck! More info at: http://miniascape.me/horror (Japanese). "

Grendel's "Grungeboardin"

The "Grungeboarding" track at the Grendle's Children area. Created by Nitwacket, "Grundgeboardin is Constantine Riel's 'fault' - according to Flea Bussy - who created the rest of the stuff in the machinima."